A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

I had a boyfriend for a long time and I've never really been single as an adult.

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.

A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]

Everything is a version of something else.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.